Garment hanger



Dec. 18, 1923. 3,477,973

L. M. MARBLE GARMENT HANGER Filed July 15 1921 Patented Dec. 18, 1923.

LOUIS M. IIIABBLE, OF CANTON, PENI'ISYLVANIA.

GARMENT HANGER.

Application filed July 15, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it lznown that I, LOUIS M. MARBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment hangers, and particularly to wooden garment hangers fitted with trouser bars, and it comprises a garment hanger having locking recesses oppositely placed on the under edge of the shoulder forms, such recesses being adapted to receive and hold a trouser bar, the ends of which bar are shaped to enter and engage with such locking recesses; all as more fully hereinafter set forth and as claimed.

Wooden coat holders provided with trouser bars as usually made comprise a shoulder form and a round wooden dowel held in position by being inserted in holes drilled on the under edge of the shoulder form. The shoulder forms or coat holders are necessarily wide enough to enable them to be so drilled for the support of the trouser bar. In actual practice, this necessitates a heavier construction of the shoulder form than is desirable. The hanging capacity of a wardrobe or display rack is unnecessarily curtailed, as much as onethird extra space being required per garment than is necessary for the proper holding of a garment.

One object of my invention is to provide a construction for a trouser bar of a wooden garment holder which will permit the shoulder forms to be made no wider than the diameter of the dowel bar itself, while securing a compact, strong, simple and sturdy construction.

A further object of my invention is to provide the under side of the shoulder forms of a garment hanger wit-h locking recesses entered from the side of the hanger, into which the correspondingly formed ends of the trouser bar engage, which throws the strain incident to the hanging of a garment on the trouser bar upon the shoulders of the locking recesses, thus avoiding the use of nails or other holdfasts to support the strain of holding the trouser bar in place.

In the accompanying drawings are shown two forms of a specific embodiment of my Serial No. 484,897.

invention, wherein similar numerals designate corresponding parts.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of one form of garment hanger;

Figure 2 is a top plan view tnereof;

Figure 3 is a top plan view of another form of garment hanger;

Figure 4 is an enlarged vertical section through the joint of the hanger shown in Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a detailed segmental perspective view of the oint of the hanger shown in Referring to the drawings 1 and 2 indicate respectively the left and right-hand shoulder bars of a garment hanger, joined by the mortise and tenon joint 3. The hanger is provided with the usual hook 4 for supporting it in place.

The trouser bar is indicated by the numeral 5 and as shown is circular in cross section, although bars of other shapes may be used if desired. The trouser bar 5 is formed at either end with a squared portion 6 of the thickness of the ends of the shoulder bars 1 and 2.

Th shoulder bars 1 and 2 are each formed with a locking recess 8 consisting of the angled portion 9, the angled portion 10, and recess 11 cut into the wood at right angles to the angled portion 9, the angled portion 12 parallel with the angled portion 9, and on the other side of the recess 11, and the angled portion 13 at right angles to the angled portion 12. The construction named causes the formation-of corners 14 and 15.

The ends 6 of the trouser bar 5 are cut so as to fit into the locking recess 8 formed in the ends of the shoulder forms 1 and 2. For this purpose it is provided with the lug or tenon 16 entering into the mortise recess 11 of the shoulder form, with the angled ends 17 and 18 which engage with the correspondingly formed portions and 12 of the shoulder form, with the angled portion 19 which engages with the angled cut 9 of the shoulder form, and the angled portion 20 which engages with the angled cut 13 in the shoulder form. The parts fitting exactly, when the trouser bar 5 is fitted into the shoulder form. it is necessary to slide the bar in from the side, when the locking construction formed by the engagement of the locking recess 8 with the correspondingly formed end of the trouser bar 5 results in the bar being securely held in place against downward pressure. To prevent the bar from slipping out sidewise the nail or screw 21 is driven, or the parts may merely be glued. The downward thrust of the bar due to garments being held on it is borne by the angled recess 8 of the shoulder bars 1 and 2.

In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the shoulder bars 1 and 2 are in line with each other forming a straight holder. In the construction shown in Figure 3 and detailed in Figure 5 the shoulderbars 1 and 2 are at an angle to each other, the trouser bar 5 occupying the position relative to the shoulder forms illustrated in Figure 3. In this construction the locking recess 8 is termed just as in the construction shown in Figure 1, at right angles to the line of the trouser bar 5. As the trouser bar 5 fills the space formed by the locking recess 8 and as the two parts are at an angle to each other, it results that the outer edge 22 of the trouser bar 5 would project from the face of the shoulder bars 1 and 2 were it not for the fact that I have angled the taco of the tro bar 5 to correspond to the angle of the shoulder bars 1 and 2. its a result of this construction the trouser bar 5, while fitting snugly into the locking recess 8 of the shoulder bars, presents a surface which is smooth and continuous on the outer surface of the shoulder bars,a perfectly smooth surlace which will not catch or tear the lining of a coat.

The construction shown in all the figures permits the manufacture of relatively thin shoulder forms, indeed of no greater thickness than the width or diameter of the trouser bar. This construction also permits inexpensive manufacture and saves time in the assembling operation.

What I claim is 1. A garment hanger comprising a shoulder form provided at points near the ends with irregularly shaped recesses extending inwardly from and at approximately right angles to the under edges of the form and a trouser bar having projections at its ends, the projections being complementary in size and shape to the recesses, permitting-the lateral insertion of the projections into the recesses and holding the trouser bar against vertical displacement.

2. A garment hanger comprising a shoulder bar which is cut on its lower edge near the ends to form irregularly shaped recesses extending from face to face of the shoulder bar, and having angled projections adapted to resist the downward pressure of a trouser bar fitting in the same, and a trouser bar, the ends of which are cut to enter into and engage such recesses.

3. A garment hanger comprising a shoulder form, the under edges of which, at points near the ends, are provided with locking means comprising a plurality of angled portions and recesses extending from one side face of the shoulder form to the other, and a trouser bar having on each end a plurality of complementary angled portions and recesses permitting lateral inser- LOUIS M. MARBLE 

